Recently, I’ve been using a famous quote by Calvin Coolidge as my mantra to get me going and get things done. Specifically, getting a product together; getting it up on a website; and getting it promoted.

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence
Talent will not; nothing is more
common than unsuccessful people with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; The world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The slogan “press on” has solved and always will solve, the problems of the human race.”
Calvin Coolidge.

While creating my product, I wrote a 23-page sales letter. Everyday I was putting something into the letter, changing it; making it more personal; making it more exciting and enticing to read. I was determined to make this letter a “home run”.

Then I sent out a product introduction feedback request to members of my mastermind group. The feedback I got back was an eye opener for me. My sales letter was way too long. The headline was too negative. I was beating around the bush with my message. It lacked emotional content.

It needed a lot more work.

I read the “Persistence” quote again. It was then, I realized there was one important thing I needed in addition to persistence and determination to accelerate climbing this ladder of success…

and that‘s competence.

Competence is a measure of your persistence and determination.

Here’s what I mean.

You have to put yourself “out there in the field”. You have to put yourself out where you can be judged, criticized, applauded, supported, and commented on. This judgment or feedback is the measure of your persistence and determination—your level of competence that you have attained so far.

(note: I’m referring to constructive, positive judgment, criticism, and feedback. The negative, non-productive kind of judgment, criticism and feedback can be laughed at because it’s showing how incompetent the judger is at constructive criticism.)

In my case, my sales letter was way off the mark. My competence (success level) for this particular sales letter was in the gutter. Not good at all.

Now that I knew what my competence level was, I became more persistent and determined to make it better–rise up to a higher success level; a new competence level. I had some great feedback and comments to work from. I found some more things wrong while improving the sales letter. I fixed the letter as best as I could for the level of competence I was at. The letter is now 8-pages long and a lot stronger.

You see this dynamic success formula at work all around you. When you see a child first learn to write, ride a bike, tie their shoes, when you make your first omelet, learn something new for the first time, learning a new job skill, for guys–meeting the right lady, for gals–choosing the right guy, driving a stick-shift, parking parallel. Just about anything you think and do is affected by persistence, determination and competence.

Maybe you already know someone who has their own stories and examples of how they became successful—how their competence levels grew from persistence and determination. And every time you meet up with them you notice their new competence level has “grown astronomically” since the previous meeting just a few months earlier! I’ll tell you more of how this “astronomical growth” happens latter.

For now, here’s an observation of what happens when you don’t put yourself “out there”. I used to teach English here in Japan. The majority of the students really want to learn English. They’ll study hard. They’ll study everyday. And that‘s it! Nothing more. They will never leave the comfort of the classroom, or their home, or computer to put themselves “out there”. Unfortunately, a large part of this behavior is cultural…Japanese students don’t want to make mistakes and if you are good at something you don’t want to standout. In addition, the majority of them are shy. When it comes to being competent in English this whole country is a classic case of seeing how one can be persistent and determined and not be successful.

Of course there are exceptions. My best students, and I can count them with my fingers, were the ones who spoke English out side of the classroom to each other. They didn’t have the opportunity to meet foreigners, so cipla cialis they talked to each other—discussing, debating, and discovering with each other how to express themselves. Their competence soared way above all the other students.

I’ve been to China and other Asian countries and their English level is so much higher for just one simple reason—they put themselves out there–they are not afraid to talk. This really drives home the point of how important it is to start putting a value on “being competent”.

Fear is your biggest block to success. You can be persistent and determined, but if you have a fear of being judged, criticized, being a failure or a fear of not being good enough—you’re short changing your growth in competence for what you want to do. You’re stuck on the lower rungs of your success ladder.

Why not focus on this idea: “The better I become, the more success I get to become better.” I don’t know about you, but that not only gives me an easier way to climb my success ladder, I can also see a rainbow with a pot of gold waiting for me at the top.

Now here’s how the “astronomical growth” of competence works. With each new “step-up” in your competence level, you get a LARGER awareness of new “potentials” that you never saw before. The higher the level of competence–the LARGER the awareness of new potential ways to accelerate your competence.

Makes sense right. Just like climbing a mountain, taking off on a plane, climbing a tree, your horizons expand with each new height you climb to. You see things that you could not see at lower levels.

A real life example.

I’m a
Japanese-Western-style-ceremonial-wedding-Sheppard. Which means I do Western style ceremonial weddings for Japanese. I won’t go into the details. What‘s important is this. When I first started I was nervous and challenged because I had to memorize a 15-page script that was 99% Japanese. This wasn’t your everyday Japanese. This was very special Japanese used only in very formal occasions–weddings being one of them. It was like learning a new language within a language.

It took me about 10 weddings before I felt a new level of competence. With every mistake I made I would go back and rehearse that line and practice it all through the day. I kept practicing the script from start to finish every morning and evening and anytime I was waiting in a line or riding on the train.

When I reached my first level of real competence, I could do the whole ceremony without the manual in front of me. At that level of competence, I got a larger awareness for ways that I could improve the ceremony.

In less than a year, I’ve been the only person to be requested to do weddings. Whenever a hotel is going to shoot a promotional VIDEO, I’m the first to be called. All this happened because with each new level of competence came a larger awareness of the potentials which allowed me to become better. And I capitalized on them.

Another reason for “astronomical growth” in competence is each new success level gets easier and easier to reach. That is why “Success breeds success“. Most everything we start off on is difficult. But with each higher success level our challenges become easier.

So I hope from today, Coolidge’s “Persistence” quote inspires you to capitalize on each new increase of awareness for each step-up in competence on the success ladder you are climbing. If you make this a habit, you’ll be flying up every success ladder you climb and reap the pot of gold for that particular success ladder faster and easier than you have ever done before.

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I was in trouble and living my life in confusion, complexity, and chaos.

I didn’t know what I wanted to do with my life. More than anything else, I was looking for a meaningful life, searching for that ultimate satisfaction that would make me live every day with full passion for what I do. Yet every day I felt that I lost a part of my soul.

I kept falling in that downward spiral until I started reading about success and successful people. Only then did I discover three vital qualities that ultra-successful people have – and live by – that make all the difference. These qualities make those successful people move forward with lightning speed and reach levels of success that no one could have ever imagined.

I started applying these qualities and soon effected a complete life transformation – from an ordinary person to a success guru who is helping thousands of people worldwide to create everlasting success.

Now, you may be wondering what these qualities are. You may even think that it must be very hard to adapt them to your own life. But those three qualities are surprisingly simple, and yet extremely powerful. And they hold the key to success in any endeavor.

The first quality is CLARITY.

Successful people are clear about their purpose and what they want to achieve. They know their mission and they work every day to fulfill it. Their thoughts are clear and fresh. And their clarity of purpose brings them a peaceful mind and a passionate heart.

The second quality is SIMPLICITY.

Oh, I can’t stress that one enough! Simplicity is the key to power. If you simplify everything – your life, work, needs, environment – you will be amazed at the sense of relief you feel. There is a reason behind that old saying “keep it simple, stupid!” Overcomplicating your life means you can’t think clearly. If you simplify, you will be an ultimately powerful person.

The third quality is FOCUS.

Successful people have laser-like focus. They guard their time and never allow anyone or anything to distract them. They go after their target with determination and their eyes on the prize. They don’t get distracted and jump from one opportunity to another. They reach success one step at a time. They give their all to reaching their goal until they achieve it, and then they train their focus on the next goal.

As I often say, focus is what gets things done! True, huh?

To sum up, the reason successful people find their way to the top and achieve massive success is because of their depth and clarity of thought, their ability to simplify the complex, and their laser-like focus.

Adopt these qualities today and you will be armed with three vital qualities that will definitely accelerate your success.

C.S.F. your way to success!

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I know that you want to achieve great success in your life. I know you want to be rich, cheap reductil healthy and have great relationship with your love one. However, out of 100 people who are pursuing for success in their life, only about 5 of them really achieve what they want in the end. Why is this so? Study after study has shown that to be successful in your life, you have to start from yourself. It is you that determine your own success.

Below are the 3 most common reasons people fail to achieve success in their life. By knowing this, you can prevent yourself from repeating these silly mistakes and shortcut your road to success.

1. Most people fail because they are not committed. I know that you want to be successful. But ask yourself this question, are you committed to succeed? If you are not committed, you will never achieve it. Success is something that will not come automatically; it requires a lot of effort to make it come true. If it is just like a dream for you, then you will never achieve it. Therefore, make sure that you are committed to succeed before you take any action step.

2. Most people did not take enough action toward their dreams and goals. Like I mentioned above, success will not come automatically. There is no free lunch in this world. If you want something, you will have to pay for it. The sad thing is, most people are lazy and they procrastinate without taking any real solid action. If you want to achieve great success in your life today, take massive action. Action produces results, without action, nothing is going to happen.

3. Most people fail because they stay in their comfort zone. One of the crucial factors to achieve great success is constant improving. And in order to improve, you will have to get out of your comfort zone. Many people stay in their comfort zone, they watch television the moment they need to do market research. So don’t procrastinate and don’t wait. Get out of your comfort zone and take the necessary action to make your dreams come true today.

These are the 3 most common reasons people fail to achieve success in their life. By avoiding these 3 reasons, you will eventually find yourself moving slowly toward your dreams and your goals in your life.

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Did you know that by applying a simple strategy you can become successful beyond your imagination?!

Success is not dedicated for a certain category of lucky talented people and hence anyone can become similar to those success gurus.

Success doesn’t depend on your environment, circumstances, level of education, financial situation,…etc.

All successful people faced a lot of negative circumstances and failures before they achieve what they want. They were poor, with little or no education, and were brought up under tough circumstances.

But they all followed the same strategy, to change their circumstances and reach their dreams.

You must follow this simple strategy, if you want to achieve your goals and become successful.

Here is the ultimate success strategy:

“Apply the Principles of Success”

Simple, right?!!!

But always remember: “The true power lies under the real simplicity”.

This powerful strategy guarantees your success because principles are the same and always work.

Success principles are the same no matter where you live or when you live.

Success principles always work because they are proven facts used by all successful people to achieve their goals.

Success leaves clues. And these clues are timeless success principles.

Principles will work for you as well but this depends on a single condition.

This condition is: “Principles always work if you work the principles”

You must apply these principles and put them in action.

Action makes all the difference.

Successful people believe in principles and so they persist until they see the results.

Apply success principles and they will always work. Since they worked with all who applied them, they will work with you too.

But remember you must work the principles yourself. Don’t wait for somebody else to apply the principles for you.

You must apply the principles by yourself. Don’t wait for somebody to give you permission to become successful.

Analyze your situation and see how this principle can work for you. Do it yourself.

You must lead your life.

And never surrender.

Keep practicing the principle until it works.

It takes time to master success principles. Like when you start driving your car, it took time to be a good driver.

It needs practice until you get positive results.

And here comes the benefit of having a mentor in your life. He can guide you through your journey and support you in every step. And, he can teach you these principles and how to master them.

Read success books and you will gain life time experience from the expert authors.

Attend success and personal development seminars and courses to get close to success mentors and learn from their experience.

Success Principles always work if you work them. Keep practicing the principles until you master them.

You too can become successful with the same principles used by all successful people in the world.

Start living the life of your dreams.

My friend you can make a difference.

I believe in you.

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